After recently forming a new company, CyanogenMod is already facing some fallout. The very popular Android ROM will be losing its camera app Focal due to the departure of its developer, Guillaume Lesniak (Xplodwild). Focal, which fell just two weeks shy of being available for two months, was CyanogenMod's own take on the camera app. The reason for Focal and Lesniak's departure is believed to be caused by friction between newly incorporated CyanogenMod Inc. and himself.
Lesniak has indeed confirmed that he has left CyanogenMod and founder Steve Kondik has made comments of his own. In the comments for the code changes he explained that “there's now this perception that CM is trying to steal his hard work and run with it.” Kondik goes on to explain that he would rather see Focal succeed elsewhere than have any issues arise.
It is currently unknown as to what CyanogenMod plans to do for a camera app. They can either start a new project to create one or they can revert back to AOSP camera. Lesniak's plans for Focal are unknown as well.
Via: Android Police
I stand by him. This whole thing feels like Ubuntu.
CM has done near impossible things with the help of a plethora of coders not associated with CM.
Now it feels like they are going go take this huge communities hard work and go corporate with it.
Sure it might work and they won’t be corporate but remember that money does strange things to people
and the core of XDA was never about money it was about improvement, free boarders, your own choices, to put a thing bluntly, and some dickwaving gloryhounds.
Too bad I guess, but I thought Focal was a solution without a problem so I won’t miss it tbh.
seriously? wow. i very much want to see CM succeed but this isn’t the best start. i would have thought this would have been a win/win for CM and the focal developer.